Talking Pyramids

You may have noticed that the activity here on Talking Pyramids has died down a bit over the past few months. My ever faithful and trusty assistant Bennu has continued posting lots of news items every day on Twitter, which you can read in the side bar on Talking Pyramids. GooglePlus The reason for the [...]

There have been a few new additions to the Pyramid Texts Online website that I’d like to share with you all. Hieroglyphic Flash Cards A new online hieroglyphic flash card tool has been created by Plan Zero. If you are interested in learning the basics of hieroglyphs these are definitely worth a look. It’s still [...]

More Egyptian bread photos – this one from Maryanne: The Staff of Life: http://bit.ly/6TS4EP # VOCAB: (MdC): prt-xrw, (English): voice offerings, (Hieroglyphs): http://bit.ly/7peWq7 # Zahi Hawass on the Curse of Tutankamun: http://bit.ly/7hrFGQ # Playmobil’s Egyptian Pyramid brings age of the Pharaoh’s alive: http://bit.ly/5a3q5s # The results are in and the pharaohs are a hit!; King [...]

Egyptian Flour The photo to the right is of some Egyptian flour I recently bought to try. I bake a loaf every second day or so and when I saw the packet of Egyptian flour in the shop I had to try it. Last night I made the first loaf and this morning used it [...]

PHOTO: Egyptian Artifact – Book of the Dead: http://bit.ly/8cEq22 # BOOKS: Plenty of free PDFs to download at the Giza Digital Library: Complete Giza Publications List arranged by Author: http://bit.ly/63GkCB # Has anyone read Pyramids by Joyce A. Tyldesley? I've enjoyed her other writings but not read this one: http://bit.ly/6XncT1 # VOCAB: (MdC): pw, (English): [...]

Luxor features quite a bit in today’s news and so I have added a beautiful photographic slideshow of the temple. Some of those night time views are astounding. The VOCAB tweets from the past week are combined and presented as a chart on Flickr as usual and today’s chart features the Four Sons of Horus. [...]

Here is the daily news brought to you by Talking Pyramids‘ own ‘bird on the wire’ Bennu. Lots of photos and hieroglyphs today : Photo Slideshow of the Temple of El Kab: http://bit.ly/5ZHvOF Read about the site of el Kab at Osirisnet: http://bit.ly/4v3mNo # Office Hieroglyphs: Fourth and final line of the offering ritual: en [...]